"Free public transport in Tallinn – a brave step towards the green capital"
Smart and green growth forum
Tallinn 26 October 2012: International Conference Tallinn City.
The City of Tallinn/Estonia has a challenging project to start providing free public transport to its residents from January 1, 2013. With this step, Tallinn will safeguard social cohesion of local community granting equal mobility opportunities to all social strata. For many car drivers, free public transport will be a major incentive to switch to public transport thus reducing pollution and noise, and, in the long run, this will improve living standards of all citizens.
The conference in Tallinn on October 26, 2012 aims at bringing together representatives of local and regional governments, practitioners and stakeholders to discuss in an open forum the challenges, problems and opportunities of such initiative. We introduce the project of free public transport in Tallinn, share experiences of the cities that have already implemented free public transport (fully or partly) in urban areas, as well as generate discussion with other EU capitals and metropolis, partner cities of Tallinn and cities, active in international organizations and networks focusing on transport and environment issues.
Target groups of participants:
Capitals and metropolis, partner cities of Tallinn and cities, active in international organizations and networks focusing on transport and environment issues, representatives of local and regional governments, practitioners and stakeholders to share experiences of the cities that have already implemented free public transport (fully or partly) in urban areas.
More information:
www.tallinn.ee/freepublictransport
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